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Improving Construction Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery

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Significant improvement across the AECOO sector (architecture, engineering, construction, operation, owner) requires an understanding of the critical parameters. Competencies, skills, education, operational expertise, process awareness, and outcome focus are key focus areas. INTRODUCTION. Competencies. The most glaring example is BIM.

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Define Construction Procurement

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Define Construction Procurement. Define Construction Procurement… It’s easy to define construction procurement right? Improper construction procurement methods and a relative lack of competency on the part of procurement staff have greatly contributed to poor construction outcomes. Perhaps not.

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Construction Project Delivery Leadership – Public Sector

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Both formal and professional education have not prepared real property owners to address the basics of planning, procurement, and project delivery that enable the consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build activities on-time and on-budget. Emphasize education and leadership growth. NEXT STEPS.

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Sustainable Public Sector Facilities Management

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Historically, most people have viewed the AECOO sector (architecture, engineering, construction, owners, operator/operations) as highly complex and involving relatively uncontrollable disparate domains of knowledge and disjointed, unshared objectives and goals. . • What is “systems thinking”? Why systems thinking?

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OpenBUILD(TM) The ONLY Construction Integrated Project Delivery Solution with Locally Researched Cost Visibility

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Poor Awareness and Education is the Norm. contact-form] Most common Facilities Management and AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operation) failure points: No real property owner leadership, commitment, and/or competency. Lack of integrated, collaborative planning, procurement, and project delivery teams.

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CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FAILURE FACTORS

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The real area of befuddlement is why real property owners have not changed the decades old legacy of rampant economic and environmental waste plaguing the AECCO sector (AECOO – Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owner, Operator). Tata McGraw-Hill Education. International Journal of Project Management Chitkara, K.

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System Thinking is a Practical Approach to Facilities Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, and New Construction

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More specifically, system thinking, and the integration of collaborative internal and external planning, procurement, and project delivery teams are fundamental requirements. Plan, procure, and deliver each project within the common interdependent framework, thus removing bureaucratic barriers to collaboration and communication.